Kastel's IFComp 2023 Reviews [All Reviews Done]

I know I’m just adding to the chorus here, but congrats on running the full circuit! I found a lot to enjoy and think about from your reviews.

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Thank you SO MUCH for writing so many reviews, and especially for this one. I just wrote this in my post-mortem, and thought I may as well copy and paste myself…

Ouch! The last thing I want to do is write something inauthentic… let alone alienating! Especially to someone who knows Bali! I hoped, as I was writing, to make Indonesian readers smile in recognition. So this review will continue to lurk in the back of my mind as I look at the story post-comp. My only consolation is that my player character only spends a couple of weeks in Bali each year, so they would indeed have a somewhat tourist-ish perspective.

I also read some other reviews by Kastel and they’re the brave flavour of reviewer who will gladly criticize games quite harshly… which hurts to read, but is extremely useful for improvement too. There used to be way more “harsh” reviewers around, and the world needs them.

So, again, thank you.

I’d like to put your name in the credits, if that’s okay with you?

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Go ahead, and thanks for taking the criticism seriously.

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I don’t hide that I plan to comment in the postmortem of the pair of games actually set in Italy, whose surprised me, esp. the correct Italian in one of those…

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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